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Generating squares of first 10 natural numbers (using comprehensions )

# Normal format

squares = [ ]
for x in range(1,11):
    s = x ** 2
    squares.append(s)
print (squares)

#Output 
[1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100]

List comprehension is the simplest way of creating a sequence of elements that fulfilled the condition

#List comprehension

squares = [ x ** 2 for x in range(1,11) ]
print (squares)

#Output
[1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100]

Find The Most Frequent Value In a List

#Find most frequent value in a list

list = [2,4,6,2,5,3,2,1,7]
print(max(set(list), key = list.count))

#Output
2

Reverse String

# Simple way to reverse string 

Blog = "Iterathon" [::-1]
print(Blog)

#Output
nohtaretI

We have a lot of ways to reverse a string using python. But, most of the people didn’t know this.

Remove Duplication in list ( Easy Way )

#Remove duplicates in List

Org_list = [1,2,3,4,2,3,5]
alter_list = list(set(Org_list))
print(alter_list)

#Output
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

We already know that set returns the values without duplicates. So, we convert a list to set and again set to list (Typecasting).

Swapping two values without using temp

# Swapping two values 
a,b = 5,7

# Swapping without using temp variable
a,b = b,a
print('a =' , a ,'b =' , b)

#Output
a = 7 b = 5

Fulfilled at least one conditions without declared all conditions in if.

# For one or two conditions 

viewers = 1000
likes = 500
if viewers >= 1000 or likes >= 700:
    print(" Good luck ")

#Output
Good luck

# For more than ten conditions

viewers = 2000
likes = 700
conditions = [ viewers >= 1000,likes >= 500]

if any(conditions):
    print(" Good luck ")

#Output
Good luck

You can create a list and use any() to perform OR operation (fulfilled at least one condition). If you didn’t get it compare two examples side by side to understand clearly.

Fulfilled all conditions without declared all conditions in if.

# For one or two conditions 

viewers = 1000
likes = 500
if viewers >= 1000 and likes >= 500:
    print(" Good luck ")

#Output
Good luck

If you have one or two conditions, you can use the above example programs

# For more than ten conditions

viewers = 2000
likes = 700
conditions = [ viewers >= 1000,likes >= 500]

if all(conditions):
    print(" Good luck ")

#Output
Good luck

Suppose if you have more than ten conditions, you can create a list and use all() to perform AND operation (fulfilled all conditions). If you didn’t get it compare two examples side by side to understand clearly.

Concatenating Strings

#join strings

characters = ['I', 'T', 'E', 'R', 'A', 'T', 'H', 'O', 'N']
Blog = ''.join(characters)
print(Blog)

#Output
ITERATHON

Using sorted() Function

Sorting any sequence is very easy in Python using the built-in method sorted()which does all the hard work for you. sorted()sorts any sequence (list, tuple) and always returns a list with the elements in sorted manner. Let’s take an example to sort a list of numbers in ascending order. Taking another example, let’s sort a list of strings in descending order.

Return Multiple Values From a Function

Python has the ability to return multiple values from a function call, something missing from many other popular programming languages. In this case the return values should be a comma-separated list of values and Python then constructs a tuple and returns this to the caller. As an example see the code below: